wpa_supplicant 0.6.6 Compiling the Broadcom backend errors.

Jouni Malinen j
Fri Jan 30 12:10:56 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:19:49AM +0100, Thorben J wrote:

> I'm trying to build wpa_supplicant with the broadcom wl.ko driver.
> I am using the 64bit kernel module from here
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
> (version 5.10.27.14 1/21/2009)

Have you tried using Linux wireless extensions (CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y)
with that driver?

> In my config I have:
> CONFIG_DRIVER_BROADCOM=y

The driver_broadcom.c in wpa_supplicant is for much older Broadcom
driver interface and won't work with the new driver versions. Anyway, I
would expect that you don't even need it.

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